Virtual desktop infrastructure, or VDI for short, is a method for taking virtual desktops — virtual machines running the Microsoft Windows desktop operating system — and hosting them in the data ...

Many small businesses currently enjoy cost savings as a result of their decision to consolidate an IT infrastructure via server virtualization — that is, replacing multiple physical servers with ...

It's easy to take potshots at virtual desktop infrastructure, but this embattled technology has plenty of time to become a formidable force. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has an image problem ...

If we want to convert a Physical Machine to a Virtual Machine in VirtualBox, we need first to change the physical hard drive to a virtual one using a free utility called Disk2vhd. Then, since ...

Although virtual desktop infrastructure existed for more than a decade, VDI is only now starting to take off for state and local governments. Interest in VDI among government agencies is finally ...

Google is revamping its Chrome OS platform with a new desktop environment and window management system. We took a close look at the user interface improvements earlier this week in a detailed hands-on ...

A new level of confusion hit the tech world when cloud computing became practical in the enterprise and the term “XaaS” was coined. XaaS, or anything-as-a-service, was used to describe the seemingly ...

Maybe I'm just screwing this up, but I don't see how. I have a PC backed up to a VHD file. On a Windows 7 box, I have some version of VMWare, something from within the last year. I can create a new VM ...

Maze continues to adopt tactics from rival cybercrime gangs. The operators of the Maze ransomware have added a fresh trick to their bag of badness: Distributing ransomware payloads via virtual ...